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POWs Waiting for Apologies (in National News) API Advisory Commission Visits S.F. (in Bay Area News) Asian Food Markets in the Bay Area (in Business) Lampo Leong's Forces • Contemplation (in A&E) Reasons to Celebrate (in Opinion) Gore Has 16-Point Lead Among Likely Hispanic Voters By Associated Press Vice President Al Gore has a 16-point lead over George Bush among Hispanic voters nationwide and tops the Texas governor by more than twice that margin in California, according to a poll released last week. But Bush is getting support from a third of the overall Latino vote, 60 percent of whom consider themselves Democrats, according to the survey for the San Jose Mercury News, the Miami Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Knight Ridder Washington bureau. Fifty percent of the 2,721 likely Latino voters questioned by International Communications Research of Media, Pa., said they supported Gore for president, while 34 percent backed Bush. Gore led Bush 59 percent to 25 percent among California Hispanics, according to the poll, which has a margin of error of 1.9 percentage points nationwide and 4.1 points in California. Both parties are vigorously campaigning for Hispanic votes. Overall, Bush led Gore 52 percent to 39 percent nationwide in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll released last week, but Gore held an 11-point lead in California in a Field Poll released June 20.